2016 Annual Safety Incentive Program Award

Thank you for attending Chicago Area LECET's 15th Annual Safety Incentive Program Awards Ceremony. Our hope is that you enjoy your afternoon and leave with a sense of the deep commitment to safety and partnership that we share with the union contractors and skilled construction Laborers that we represent.

The Safety Incentive Program was started in 2002 as a way for us to complement our signatory contractors' own safety programs by providing extra incentive for Laborers to stay accident-free on the job.

This annual event featuring the 12 skilled Laborers honored today is the marquee celebration of the Safety Incentive Program, but there is a lot more going on all year behind the scenes.

Every three months we randomly select 200 signatory contractors to nominate qualified Laborers who have worked accident-free throughout that time period. We then randomly select one nominated Laborer from each selected company that participated and award him or her with a $250 gift certificate to a popular retail store. The 12 annual finalists you see here today were chosen in a similar manner.